The Digital Expanse:

In a world that mirrors our own, the past year has been very eventful, moreso even than our own. This is due to the main difference between the two realities: The formation of Aleph Corp., a merger of Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Sony. This merger had been planned well in advance; a lobbying group was formed in 2019 to convince several governments to approve the transaction, and in February 2020, the merger was finalized. By April, Aleph Corp. had released a new technology: a phone capable of accessing the new Aleph Corp. program library, the “Omniphone”. On April 25, the corporation ended all support for the programs and systems that the companies that formed it had released.

The Omniphone was unlike any other device at the time: a folding touch-sensitive cellphone with a holographic display and a “Base Unit,” a mini computer in its own right that the Omniphone could dock and wirelessly connect with. It was on these Base Units that Aleph Corp. began releasing video games and streaming services, which the Omniphone could piggyback off of at gigabit connection speeds. There was even an additional hardware release to convert the phone into a game controller, and special edition models quickly became highly sought-after by the rich. It took only 21 days for the Omniphone to completely sell out, and production halted completely.

In June, production was resumed, and the new operating system for Omniphones, the “Silver” OS, replaced the previous “Bronze” OS. At the end of the month the Omniphone had once again been totally sold-out, having released a total of 1 billion units worldwide. The new OS enabled wireless connections using hardware that had been built into the Omniphones from the beginning, but had no firmware support until the upgrade. This new “Expansion Network” ran from recently completed satellites and created a “web” of data around the planet.

In November, a final run of the Omniphone 1.0 was completed, including 100 random units running the newest software, the “Gold” OS, for testing before the release of the Omniphone 1.1, which the OS was made for. This meant overclocking the Omniphone 1.0, a requirement for running the operating system on the now-dated hardware.

You play as a person who just obtained one of the 100 overclocked Omniphones running the “Gold” OS, and who is a fan of the series Digimon, Megaman Battle Network, or both. This person owns any two (or simply the PET) of the following items before obtaining their Omniphone: A Digimon Vpet, a Digimon Digivice game toy, and/or a Megaman PET game toy. Your story begins in December upon receiving your Omniphone. These game toys fuse with the Omniphones to create “Expanse Callers,” the “Digivices” of the Digital Expanse. This story is fraught with danger; death is a real possibility for all involved. Will you and your fellows be able to save the worlds that you find yourself in? Or will they be lost to darkness forever?

- Characters must be 12 or older. Characters receive one Digimon from their Vpet, one Digimon from their Digivice toy, and/or one Navi from their PET toy. You can choose to have a PET toy and a Vpet or Digivice, but those who choose just a PET start with extra battlechips, including rare ones.
- Players can use any Digimon with few exceptions and any canon Navi not listed below as banned.
- The same model of any of the three toys cannot be used by multiple players, though remakes count as different models. Battlechip Gates count as PET toys.
- You cannot make new Digimon, or use digivolution lines that aren’t possible in canon, though you can create a new non-canon Navi and/or use digivolution lines that are possible but haven’t appeared in canon.
- Navis require a symbol associated with them.
- Megaman Starforce will be involved in the RP, but players cannot start with Wizards.
- Only Navis and specific NPC Digimon can wield the Legendary Arms Digimon.
- Navis can Cross-Soul and Double-Soul with Digimon.
- Xros Wars Digimon can only be used if they are put into a normal digivolution line. The Xros mechanic does not exist here.
- You must choose on your CS to have your Digimon either stay in their strongest stage or revert and warp digivolve from Child. The benefits of staying in the stage are that it maintains its power at all times, but requires more upkeep and more time to recover/recharge. It also stays a bigger and more threatening target, whereas a warp digivolving Digimon will revert to Child or In-Training when they run out of energy/take too much damage. However, this means they need time to digivolve before they can really fight. The lower the stage the faster they recover/recharge health and power.
- The following Navis are banned for players: Bass, Serenade, Fused Colonel, Hub-style Megaman.
- There will be hidden GM-only stats for Digimon and Navis, though they will only be used if absolutely necessary.

Character Sheet Template:

Human:

Name:
Your character's name.

Age:
Your character's age.

Appearance:
A description, image, or both.

Personality:
Your character's basic personality traits.

History:
Your character's backstory/life until getting an Omniphone.

Other:
Additional traits of importance.

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Digimon:

Name:
The Digimon's nickname if applicable, otherwise their species name.

Appearance:
A description, image, or both.

Stage Type:
Either warp digivolution or maintained digivolution.

Personality:
The Digimon's basic personality traits.

D.N.A.:
A list of data that was on the Omniphone, Digivice Toy, and/or Vpet that became the digimon. For example, what files were on the phone when the fusion happened?

Other:
Other notable traits.

Digivolution Line:
Fresh - In-Training - Child - Adult - Perfect - Ultimate - Super Ultimate
List techniques/attacks of each stage as well. More techniques will likely mean lower stats.

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NetNavi:

Name:
The Navi's name.

Appearance:
A description, image, or both.

NaviCust:
A NaviCust setup using canon NaviCust pieces. You start with a four by four square to place in. Resource=http://themechanicalmaniacs.com/axe/navicust.php

Personality:
The Navi's basic personality traits.

Other:
Other notable traits.

NaviCust

Battle Chips

As stated in the OOC below, Navi users start with 5 standard chips and 2 mega chips, but they have to be version 1 of the chip. So WideShot1 would work, but WideShot2 wouldn't. You also get 5 blank chips and five blank capture cards for having one digimon and one navi. Or you can get additional blank chips instead of seven determined ones.

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[APPEARANCE]
A girl of average height and a faintly athletic build. Anne's beige hair is kept shoulder length, and occasionally tied back in a small ponytail, the green elastic band to do so otherwise always worn around her right wrist. She most often wears loose tops like hoodies, sweaters, and jackets, and commonly wears skirts with shorts underneath. As much to listen to music as to deter people from speaking to her, she almost always has a pair of headphones on when out in public. Her eyes are a deep blue, and her skin is rather pale, not helped by the general lack of sunlight she gets. She always wears short ankle socks to cover the scars on her right ankle. Another set of large scars is hidden beneath her tops, to the lower right side of her torso and hip. Anne makes every effort to never expose any of these--even when alone, she'll change quickly and close her own eyes.

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[PERSONALITY]
Aloof, distant, and withdrawn. A bundle of anxiety and regrets, veiled by a purposefully cold disposition presented to the world.
Despite the first impression she tries to give off, Anne is an extremely empathetic and understanding individual, and has an easy time seeing the good in anyone--anyone but herself. Her crafted, reserved exterior's purpose is to keep others from having to deal with her. She fears imposing on other people, never wanting to take advantage of another's kindness, nor bring down their mood with her own issues. Related to this, she hates showing any weakness, whether physical or emotional.
Although greatly suppressed in recent times, Anne also has an incredible competitive drive. In the rare instances it flares up nowadays, it clashes with her desire to not bring others down--as 'winning' some competition necessarily means somebody else loses. The outlet she has found for this is primarily the latest Digimon trading card game, and other various games where the results are unimportant, but still manage to scratch her competitive itch a bit.
Anne can be impulsive, stubborn, and driven, especially at times when she has trust in herself. It happens rarely now that she's closed herself off, but when caught up in a moment enough, she can make quick decisions and be shockingly confident in them, in contrast to her usual calculating, overthinking, and anxious personality.

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[HISTORY]
Anne's earliest memories involve Digimon. She's unsure when her interest in the franchise began, exactly, but it caught her attention early on in her childhood and stood out among all her other interests for a long while.
Another early interest of hers was figure skating--more of an 'obsession' than an 'interest.' As the years went on, more and more of her time and energy was devoted to the sport, and less and less to anything else. Hours spent neither at school nor sleeping were spent at the rink.
She was good. Good enough to start winning competitions early and often. Good enough to compete nationally and place well. Good enough that competing in the Olympics wasn't just an impossible dream. By her midteens, every moment of her life was spent to improve herself at the sport. Her grades suffered for it, and her parents expressed some worry for her future beyond figure skating, but Anne had no care to think about that. This way of life had become all she had ever known, and the thought of it ending felt so impossible it wasn't worth the time to dwell on. Anne was so close to attending the next winter Olympics that she spared no effort for anything else.
Except for one night.
Months upon months of chipping away at her, a couple of friends she skated with finally managed to convince her to go to a house party. Anne was uncomfortable from the very beginning, completely inexperienced with such social settings--and with alcohol. Unable to refuse her friends, she began to drink, and drink, and drink.
She only remembers the briefest moments of the night past that point. Mainly her being incredibly stupid along with everyone else. The only moment that mattered, though, was her complying with getting into the passenger seat of a friend's car, along with a few others--all of whom were very much not sober.
Well, there wasn't much to sober you up like bleeding out.
That was the next memory she retained. The car door twisted into her, her body warm and slick with blood, and particularly searing pains in both her right ankle and hip.

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Nobody had died. That was something, at least. In fact, Anne had managed to be the one who got the worst of it. The rest shared a few fractured bones and a concussion between all of them.
Anne's ankle had been shattered, and her pelvis broken. Her life had been in serious danger, but she was lucky enough to survive.
"Lucky."
After a several-month long physically and mentally exhausting recovery and rehabilitation period that Anne did her best to fight through, the hope she held onto for all that time was finally shattered. In no uncertain terms, she was told she wouldn't be able to competitively skate again.
Left only with scars that made her sick to look at running across the lower right side of her stomach and hip, and a slight limp, Anne receded from the world.

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With poor grades and no drive to tackle the challenge of fixing them, Anne decided to let herself just scrape by the end of high school, seeing no future for herself. Days and nights were spent laying on her bed. It didn't take long for her to start drinking heavily, finding it helped completely numb her body and her thoughts.
This went on for a few months until it was found out by her parents. The girl already felt guilty for what she was doing, and seeing her parent's reactions to her state only hurt her more. After some emotionally exhausting conversations, it was decided she'd start going to therapy.
Lapses occurred, but she slowly began to become healthier in body. She learned to put on a braver face, stepping outside to eventually begin to work, though kept herself distant from everyone else. While her mind was still a mess, this seemed to be enough to keep her parents from being overly worried about her.
At some point, she began to pass the long, lonely hours in her room by consuming media, discovering a nostalgic love for Digimon. Characters she had met and looked up to in her formative years aged along with her, earning her admiration again, though this time it was bittersweet--rather than hoping to be like them one day, she simply saw them as an ideal she could no longer ever reach.
The positive feelings the franchise brought out of her were greater than any negatives, though. Soon enough, she was spending some of her money on Blurays, cards, and toys for the franchise, almost to her own surprise--it also, positively, meant less money available to spend on alcohol.
Very recently, Anne put some money aside to buy herself an Omniphone. Though she had never been one to care much for smartphones--having been using a completely outdated android model for years just for texting--her new interest in Digimon meant there were some mobile games for the franchise that she wanted to play. An Omniphone for that purpose was a bit overkill, but her parents offered to help pay for it, and it would be decently future-proof.
Future-proof...
Somehow, that was the first time since the accident that Anne had given any thought to a future. Even if it was something as insignificant as how long her phone would last her, it was something, and that was all the convincing she needed to spend the money.

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[DIGIMON]

Digimon:
Terriermon

Name:
Aero

Stage Type:
Warp Digivolution

Personality:
Somewhat of a goofball, Aero is a fun digimon to be around. His sense of humour is often off-beat, leading to strangely timed, humorous outbursts. Impulsive and playful, he's not unlike a dog--one that can talk and cause significant property damage, at least. Similar to Anne, Aero is of the competitive sort, absolutely despising losing and possessing the same nigh insane refusal to give up. Despite this, even in fights and competition, his playful nature still comes through in the form of silly quips and one-liners. If a foe can actually get him to shut up, it means Aero is quite worked up and a terrifying force to be reckoned with.

D.N.A.:
D-Ark Ultimate Digivice toy, the first of Digimon related merchandise Anne managed to get her hands on, for her love of the cute Terriermon. During the fusing with her Omniphone, the device most notably took on hours of old footage of Anne's figure skating competitions and practices, as well as more recent footage of matches she played of the Digimon TCG online, meant to be studied so she could improve.

Digivolution Line |

• Fresh: Zerimon
  - Acid Bubbles: Shoots bubble-like substances from its mouth.
• In-Training: Gummymon
  - Double Bubble: Spits out a lot of adhesive bubbles.
• Child: Terriermon
  - Blazing Fire: Shoots a tiny blast of energy of its mouth.
  - Petit Twister: Fires a little turbulence like a tornado.
• Adult: Gargomon
  - Gatling Arm: Fires bullets or lasers from both arms.
  - Dumdum Upper: A powerful uppercut punch combined with Gatling Arm.
• Perfect: Rapidmon
  - Rapid Fire: Rapid-fires homing missiles from its arms and the revolver on its back.
  - Homing Missle: Shoots homing missiles from the revolver on its back.
• Armor: Gold Rapidmon
  - Golden Triangle: Fires a triangular beam from its whole body that completely disassembles the enemy's data.
  - Rapid Fire: Rapid-fires homing missiles from its arms and the revolver on its back.
• Ultimate: Rapidmon X
  - Rapid Blaster: Rapid-fires the Armed Arms on its back at long-range, which has a low attenuation rate.
  - Laser Gatling Arm: Rapid-fires the Armed Arms on both of its arms at short-to-medium-range.
  - Billion Bullet: Ejects all of the Armed Arms, cornering the enemy by operating them remotely, and shooting them up with a billion bullets.

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Digimon:
Blucomon

Name:
Clover

Stage Type:
Warp Digivolution

Personality:
Though far more reserved than Aero, Clover is still prone to getting swept up in the Terriermon's shenanigans willingly. The more thoughtful and calculating of the pair, his traits balance out--and are balanced out by--Aero's more impulsive nature. Clover shares Anne's strong empathy and desire to keep others happy, even at the perceived cost of his own. Is very helpful in keeping Aero under control, and is happy to do so, enjoying taking care of the other digimon, even when Aero may not wish to be cared for. Clover is also far quicker to anger when anyone else upsets or harms his friends, in which cases Aero's relaxed nature can help the Blucomon keep his wits about him.

D.N.A.:
Digital Monster X Ver.3 Vpet bought originally due to the ability to raise an alternate version of Terriermon, Terriermon X. At the time of fusion, though, Blucomon was the digimon the girl was raising on the device, having only found out about the creature's existence through it and falling quickly for its cool design. The Omniphone most notably contributed all of her note files that she used to try to keep her thoughts straight--rants, ideas, plans, lists, and everything else. Files which essentially acted as a scattered diary of sorts.

Digivolution Line |

• Fresh: Cocomon
  - Acid Bubbles: Shoots bubble-like substances from its mouth.
• In-Training: Chocomon
  - Double Bubble: Spits out a lot of adhesive bubbles.
• Child: Blucomon
  - Baby Hail: Spits countless icicles from its mouth.
  - Ice Mash: Attacks continuously with the claws on both hands.
• Adult: Paledramon
  - Ice Age: Freezes the enemy with its breath.
  - Meteor Hail: Charges from the sky as if it were a giant block of ice.
• Perfect: Crys Paledramon
  - Frozen Claw: Tears the enemy to pieces with the ice claws equipped to both of its arms, and then freezes their wounds.
  - Callous Dimension: Generates a snowsquall which causes everything around it to be frozen in ice, including the enemy.
• Ultimate: Hexeblaumon
  - Summon Frost: Spreads cold air over a wide range, instantly transforming anyone that draws near into statues of ice.
  - Absolute Blast: Unleashes an absolute zero wave from the dragon jaws on its left shoulder which shatters everything.
  - Hecto Edge Blizzard: Causes countless ice swords to fall down like a blizzard.

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Character Sheet Template:

Human:

Name:
Simon Cook

Age: 15


Appearance:


Personality:
Simon isn't the most outgoing person, but he also isn't a lone wolf and genuinely appreciates his friends even if he doesn't always show it. While he prefers to let others take the lead he will speak up if he feels it is necessary and he is very much the one in charge when it comes to Solarmon and Fanbeemon. He also has a tendency to hold grudges if wronged but is trying to work on it.

History:
Simon's life was pretty average for the most part, he was an only child who did decent in school and was neither super popular or at the bottom of the social order. The most interesting thing that ever happened to him was a trip to the hospital due to a minor allergic reaction to peanut butter.

While he enjoyed the battle network games he wasn't super great at them, and being more of a casual gamer usually just finished the story and called it good. He never played any of the Digimon games but did enjoy the first two animes.

Other:
Simon is allergic to peanuts.

Digimon:

Name:
Fanbeemon

Appearance:


Stage Type:
Warp digivolution

Personality:
Fanbeemon has no issue fighting and deleting non-sentient viruses but would prefer to just talk things out with Navi's and other Digimon, unless there is no risk of either side being deleted. If talking is not an option though, he will give it all during the fight until it's over.

D.N.A.: A mix of the usual Omniphone apps, some photos of whatever caught Simon's interest and several memes, while the green D-3 toy came with the Veemon/Wormmon pair and the Digimental of Knowledge.

Other:

Digivolution Line:
Fresh (Pupumon)

• Poison Bubbles:Spits poisonous bubbles from its mouth.

In-Training (Puroromon)

• Chikkuritto: Injects a tiny quantity of venom with the tiny stinger on its rump.

Child (Fanbeemon)

• Gear Sting: Rapid-fires tiny, serrated stingers
• Hachi Hachi Call: Reddens its antennae and contacts its allies, summoning a huge crowd of its comrades.

Adult (Waspmon)

• Turbo Stinger: Rapid-fires its wide-aperture laser cannon.
• Bear Buster: A single blow fired after charging up energy. This technique can bring down even larger Digimon, but it is difficult to hit agile enemies with it, so it is mainly used against enemies on the ground.

Perfect (CannonBeemon)

• Nitro Stinger: Fires a shot from its high-caliber laser cannon which can even shoot clean through strongly armored opponents.
• Sky Rocket ∞: Fires a simultaneous bombarding barrage from the container on top of it, and continues on like raging waves until its watch is ended.

Ultimate (Tigervespamon)

• Mach Stinger V: Uses its two Royal Meister swords to stab the opponent.
• Gear Stinger: Fires small needles.
• Royal Meister: Slices the opponent with the secret honey weapons Royal Meister.

Super Ultimate (Tigervespamon)

NetNavi:

Name:
Solarman.exe

Appearance:

NaviCust:

• Charge +1: Increases your Buster charge rate, allowing you to produce charged attacks faster. As above, there are four in the game and that is all you need.
• Shield: Press left+B in battle to make Megaman briefly raise a shield. Same principle as Block but the damage will be nullified instead of just halved. Also unlike Block, it will be completely ineffective against breaking attacks. If you have Shield Style while this is equipped and raise the Shield juuust before the enemy's hit connects, then you don't just nullify the damage, you recover 100HP as well!
• Shadow Shoes: Move over cracked panels without breaking them.

Personality:
Solarman can be a bit hotheaded (pun intended), but unless something sets off him he tends to listen to Simon. When angry though, he tends to forgo subtilty and prefers to use his strongest chips, the fact that Simon rarely agrees will only only make him angrier. The rest of the time though he gets along pretty well with both Simon and Fanbeemon.

Other: Battlechips

• Swrd: Cut enemy in front! Range is 1
• Cannon
• Thunder1: A rolling lightning attack
• Recov10: Recover 10HP
• LilBomb: Bomb that explodes vertically
• Meteors: Rains a total of 30 meteors on the enemy area. Reducing the enemy area means more hits per panel.
• Super Vulcan: Fires down the row, hitting 12 times. Also hits the panel directly behind the target.
• five blank chips.
• five blank capture cards.

Solarman's charged shot resembles a cartoon sun and came from a plug-in PET toy.

Human:

Name: Hideaki Saitou

Age: 19

Appearance: Hideaki Saitou was always raised to present himself in the best way possible at all times. That said, he is not nearly as concerned about his appearance as his parents would like him to be. However, he does seek to make a solid first impression and tries to maintain himself to the best of his abilities. He attempts to maintain a "proper" Japanese student look. His hair, a deep black in hue, is styled to the side and curved a bit toward the side of his face to keep it way from his eyes. He often wears his typical school uniform: a blue jacket with white lining with darker blue streaks up the sides where the arms usually fall, as well as a pair of rather simple-looking black pants. Beneath this jacket, he usually wears a simple, collared white shirt and a black tie with a blue streak down its center. He makes sure that he does enough exercise to keep himself fit and healthy, but he does not actively attempt to physically improve himself at all. This leaves his build as rather average overall.

Personality: Hide is an intellectual and strategist that does his best to maintain a polite, "proper" demeanor. He tries his best to keep cool and level-headed, no matter what situation he finds himself in. He even bows his head or upper body when he must apologize to somebody or to show his gratitude. This also means that he is largely reserved, keeping himself and his own emotions in check while maintaining an outward appearance of professionalism. His overall goal is to appear friendly, approachable and unjudgmental, largely due to a desire to help others with problems that they might possess. However, due to a desire to prove himself to others, he is also a bit of a perfectionist, and this leads to a strong lack of desire to make mistakes. This can lead to him becoming very indecisive when an outcome is something that is difficult to predict, or when there's simply too many variables to consider.

History: Hideaki Saitou, child of the married partners of the "Reversal of Fate Law Offices," always lived a rather sheltered life. As his parents owned a very successful law firm, they were always quite well off. However, this did to lead to one small issue for him: He was being funneled by his parents into their career, and since he was being homeschooled by private tutors, he didn't even have other kids to learn from that this wasn't necessarily what he had to do. As a result, he dedicated most of his life to his studies, and other relevant skills. He was also taught to maintain professionalism in order to make sure he never did something embarrassing in public. He quietly and obediently did as his parents instructed, even as the work began to pile on him and become rather overwhelming. His schedule was usually so jam packed throughout the day of a combination of studying and physical activity to keep him fit and healthy, that he barely ever had any time simply to himself. The only thing that got him through this these days was his interest in chess, which he could play online at any time through a specific program. This was the one game they tolerated him playing, since it helped him hone strategic skills that would help him in the real world.

Little did he or his parents know that this game was going to be the turning point for him.

Once his parents realized that allowing him to play this game with others was actually helping him develop, they leaned into this rather heavily. One day, they ended up purchasing something for him--an Omniphone running the "Silver" system--one day when they decided that they needed to go on a business trip. At this point, they trusted Hide to keep to his usual schedule, and departed, leaving him on his own at the house, with the occasional tutor showing up for whatever lecture they were to give him that day. The hope for this gift was that he would no longer be locked to a desk in order to play chess with people online, on top of now having a far more reliable method of communication with them while they were away. However, in their haste, they failed to account for one problem. With this amazing new device in his hands, Hide was no longer confined to his home and nearby locations.

With awe in his gaze at every new discovery, Hide would spend a lot of his time scanning the Internet instead of playing chess, and eventually, he found something that intrigued him. A concept for monsters that lived in the digital waves of today's society, Digimon. The concept fascinated him, and he dug deeper into this in particular, finding old videogames, merchandise, and even a collectible card game of sorts. He nodded to himself and, for the first time in years, abandoned his studies in order to make his way to a local store and acquire some of these products for himself; luckily, he had been very frugal with the money he'd been making on the side from working for his parents' law firm. He bought a few things, most notably a few boxes of trading cards, and brought them home to open and play around with for a while. After a while, he decided to take his next step. He had been hesitant to buy something that he'd need to maintain over time thanks to his busy schedule, but his curiosity was simply too strong to ignore. Eventually, he couldn't help but buy himself a pair of Digimon toys, a Digivice: and a Vital Bracelet V-pet of his own.

When his parents returned, however, they were not pleased with his lack of progress. They decided to double down on his schedule, but he still found time to enjoy his newfound hobby. And thanks to his extra time working at the firm now, he was able to save up enough money to replace his Omniphone with a more updated model that was recently announced....

Other: Due to his experience with the game of chess, as well as reviewing games from the Digimon TCG and putting it into practice with his own deck, he has a very tactical mindset. He is a skilled strategist, but usually only when there's plenty of time to think about his next moves in advance.... He also has developed a fondness for Fighting games, though he simply watches them and would never play one himself; they're just too fast-paced for him. But the thoughts and strategies that must be going into each player's every move began to fascinate him.

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Digimon: